Busaba Eathai, the casual-dining Thai restaurant group, is opening in London’s Shoreditch while exiting its Bicester site in favour of a pop-up in the Oxfordshire village, chief executive Jason Myers has told M&C Report.
As previously flagged up in M&C Report the newest site will open at 36 Bethnal Green Road as the comapny’s flagship restaurant in February. It will be home to the Busaba CookThai academy - a development and teaching kitchen that will train chefs during the week and open to the public at weekends.
It will be the first site to introduce the modern Thai Kinnaree Bar to the Busaba Eathai brand. The bar will serve cocktails with a modern Thai twist and popular classics influenced by Thailand. A courtyard will connect the dining room with the cocktail bar area.
Busaba Eathai exited its only out of London site when the lease ended, Myers said the group has maintained a strong relationship with the landlord Value Retail and have been asked to open a pop-up restaurant in the village to maintain its presence there.
Myers told M&C the group has secured funding and is busy signing new restaurants for its 2015 and 2016 pipeline.
The company, which is backed by Phoenix Capital Partners, has 11 restaurants in London and one in Kingston-upon-Thames, its most recently opened site at the O2 in Greenwich opened before Christmas. It is actively looking for sites in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Bristol.
